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I was talking to a co-worker about Pidgin not coming into focus when there’s a new, inbound IM. The Pidgin window used to come into focus, front and center, when I was running Ubuntu/Gnome and when running OpenSUSE/KDE, but when I upgraded my office desktop to Ubuntu/Unity it stopped behaving this way. My co-worker noticed the same behavior with Fedora17/Gnome. A new IM would come in, but the Pidgin IM window would remain in the background, hidden, unseen and unread.

I thought “There has to be a setting that controls this,” and there is…

Bring up Pidgin’s Buddy List

Click Tools > Plugins

Locate the Message Notification plugin and highlight it

At the bottom of the Plugins window is a Configure Plugin button. Click it

This problem affects people using the KDE4 desktop with the “Oxygen” style and a recent version of the LibreOffice suite. (I’m running LibreOffice 3.4.2 on OpenSUSE 11.4) The horizontal scrollbar in Calc just doesn’t work, so if your spreadsheet is wider than your screen you can’t use the scollbar to view the right hand side.

The problem is with the Oxygen widget style. On a host running OpenSUSE 11.4 you can change this by going to: